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Lior Root and Sophia Trunzo, Founders, Paradigm Media Paradigm Media is a digital marketing agency specializing in the CBD and Cannabis industry. In the last three years, they've developed 360° marketing solutions and have been working with 70+ brands executing an ROI-focused growth strategy. Understanding the challenges this industry is facing Paradigm became a one-stop-shop for all of their clients' needs including; Paid Media, Affiliate Marketing, Email Marketing, Content Marketing, Social Media & Influencers Management, SEO, Web Development, and Graphic Design. Lior Root and Sophia Trunzo are accomplished entrepreneurs with combined decades of experience in paid media marketing and sales in the CBD industry. After years of leading in-house marketing teams, the pair seized on the explosive growth of CBD and started their own agency, Paradigm Media, in 2019. They have signed over 70 clients in under two years, including some of the biggest brands in CBD, and grown agency revenue by a projected 700%. https://www.instagram.com/paradigmmediaagency/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/paradigmmedia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heather Rubiales, Founder, Heather's Hemp Alternatives Heather Rubiales has worked closely in the Cannabis industry for the past 10 years. She is a California native born and raised in San Diego. Her passion for the industry and a clean Planet has pushed her to create the startup Heather's Hemp Alternatives based out of Humboldt County. Heather's Hemp Alternatives is providing compostable Hemp-based packaging for the Cannabis & Hemp industry and hopes to bring plastic free as a new element to what Sustainable, Regenerative Cannabis/Hemp looks like. https://heathershempalternatives.com/ https://www.instagram.com/heathershempalternatives/ https://www.facebook.com/Heathers-Hemp-Alternatives-413935642722841/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Igor Dunaevsky, Managing Partner at AskGrowers.com A digital marketing expert with a keen eye for performance marketing. Passionate about cannabis, Igor immediately recognized an emerging need for a unifying cannabis marketing platform. Combining his love of marijuana and his 15 years of experience in the digital landscape, Igor crafted an online cannabis index committed to helping consumers and brands find each other in the green sea of an expanding industry. https://www.linkedin.com/in/igor-dunaevsky-980a185a https://twitter.com/askgrowers https://www.instagram.com/askgrowers/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/askgrowers/ https://www.facebook.com/askgrowers/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Hampton, Founder, Headshop Remember the first time you walked into a headshop; the amazing sights and smells, the sense of wonder? That memory is what led Matt Hampton to create Headshop.com. A keen student of the digital revolution, Matt founded the online home for those who want to explore and buy high-quality items related to cannabis and other plant-based medicine — safely and efficiently. https://www.facebook.com/Headshop https://www.instagram.com/_headshop/ https://twitter.com/thenewheadshop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun S. Lee, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Nabis Jun S. Lee is an entrepreneur, software engineer and multifaceted business executive. In his role as Co-CEO of Nabis, California’s largest licensed wholesale cannabis marketplace, he oversees revenue, operations, product and business strategy. He brings the experienced mindset of a systems architect to cannabis, creating flawless business and consumer experiences through technology. Jun also serves on the California Cannabis Industry Association (CCIA) board and the board of Oakland Citizens for Equity and Prosperity (OCEP). Drawing from his successes at Facebook and Google, where he furthered his programming and complex systems design expertise, Jun founded Series B-funded machine learning SaaS company Allganize before launching Nabis full-time in 2017. Nabis now serves over 100 cannabis brands and nearly 100% of California’s licensed retailers with its distribution, capital, analytics and other business services. Jun received his bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and computer science from Harvard University and was recognized as a member of the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for enterprise technologies. https://www.nabis.com/ @getnabis - Instagram @GetNabis - Twitter getnabis - LinkedIn @getnabis - Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt McComb, VP of Business Development, Dingus and Zazzy Matt is the VP of Business Development at Dingus and Zazzy—a full-service, unlimited marketing department in Edmonton, AB. Matt launched his career in Engineering, Oil and Gas, and Cannabis, but has since discovered a home in creative sales and marketing. He believes that building real relationships begins with being yourself, however eccentric that may be. dingusandzazzy.com https://www.instagram.com/dingusandzazzy/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/dingus-zazzy/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-mccomb-p-eng/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scott Berman, President & Co-Founder of The Panther Group Scott is the President and Co-Founder of the Panther Group. Since 2014, he has co-founded and exited multiple companies in the ad tech and cannabis distribution sectors—with 20+ years of experience working in politics, cannabis advocacy, healthcare, and digital advertising. linkedin.com/company/thepanthergroup Instagram: @thepanthergroup Twitter: @panthergroupllc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elana Frankel, Entrepreneur and Chief Creative Officer, Indigo + Haze Elana Frankel has been working in the cannabis industry for 10+ years. She started a home grow garden club; an e-commerce business, Indigo and Haze; developed product; founded the magazine Women and Weed; authored a book with the same title; serves as Chief Growth Officer for MedialCannabisMentor.com; produces documentaries; writes freelance for various publications; volunteers for the Oregon Cannabis Commission, health equity sub-committee member; consults regularly for companies who value creativity; teaches yoga and meditation with a focus on cannabis; and even worked as a dispensary associate (at the height of Covid). Elana has been featured in the media, including CNN and The New York Times, and on various pod casts. Her writing has appeared in the WSJ/Off Duty, Architectural Digest, NY Magazine and House Beautiful. She has been an editor at Martha Stewart Living and served as VP, creative at One Kings Lane for more than 5 years, when the company was still a start-up, developing the brand, voice and visual identity. http://indigoandhaze.com @indigoandhaze Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rick & Monique Fitzgerald, Co-founder, InnDica Monique Jackson-Fitzgerald Monique Jackson-Fitzgerald is an attorney and the co-founder of both InnDica.com, an online cannabis travel platform and Lazy Turtle Group, LLC, a creative agency. With a vision to modernize and destigmatize the public perception of plant medicines, and their use as part of an active lifestyle InnDica.com was launched in 2018. InnDica is an online resource catering to plant medicine and cannabis enthusiasts. The website features a curated list of cannabis-friendly hotels, retreats, consumption lounges, event venues, and activities. InnDica.com aims to nurture and provide a sanctuary for the bright community of cannabis enthusiasts to discover new experiences and share valued insight from their travels. As “InnDica Explorers,” visitors are invited to submit stories about their cannabis travel adventures for inclusion in the “Travelogue” digital magazine. Through her work as an attorney and business consultant with Lazy Turtle Group, Monique focuses on regulations involved with social consumption as well as cannabis tourism and events. With a passion for growing a conscious, sustainable cannabis industry and refreshing the public perception of cannabis, Monique's firm also provides consulting, branding, and packaging design services for licensed cannabis brands. They also assist ancillary businesses in strengthening their relationships with cannabis partners. Rick Fitzgerald, Co-founder, InnDica Rick is a Blue Ridge born artist and the co-founder of Lazy Turtle Group. As Director of Imagination, Rick has over 25 years of experience in brand identity, packaging, and digital design. He has launched and managed creative departments for global corporations including Shorewood Packaging, International Paper, and MPS. His designs have appeared across many consumer market segments including cannabis, hemp, music, liquor, cosmetics, HBA, and fashion. His focus on sustainability and innovation in packaging is at the forefront of all of our award-winning collaborations. Rick has an endless curiosity about the creative process and design mediums, which drives our agency. His “down-to-earth” nature and artistic approach are what turns our clients into our friends. https://inndica.com -https://lazyturtlegroup.com -@inndica420 (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest) -https://www.linkedin.com/company/inndica/?viewAsMember=true (InnDica LinkedIn) -www.linkedin.com/in/rickjamesfitzgerald (Rick's LinkedIn) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Javier Hasse, Managing Director, Benzinga Cannabis Javier Hasse is a cannabis, hemp, CBD and psychedelics-focused reporter, currently serving as Managing Director of Benzinga Cannabis, CEO of Spanish-language news site El Planteo, a company he co-founded and Senior Contributor at Forbes. His book, “Start Your Own Cannabis Business,” was published by Entrepreneur Media in 2018 and hit the #1 Best-Seller spot on Amazon. As an award-winning reporter and editor, Javier's had roughly 5,000 unique articles in multiple languages published across numerous mass media outlets including CNN, Forbes, MSN, Chicago Tribune, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Entrepreneur Magazine, MarketWatch, Houston Chronicle, The Street, Nasdaq, Morningstar, Playboy, Benzinga, MERRY JANE, High Times, and many others. Beyond cannabis, Javier is a published photographer and Billboard-charting rapper, featured on hip-hop albums that also included Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and Inspectah Deck, Twista, Lil Windex, Riff Raff, Cyhi The Prynce, Yung Bleu, DJ Whoo Kid, Jonathan Hay, and others. https://www.benzinga.com/cannabis/ bzcannabis.com Javier Hasse Twitter Javier Hasse LinkedIn javierhasse@benzinga.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sloane Barbour, Founder & CEO of engin and Partner at FlowerHire Sloane Barbour is the Founder & CEO of engin, the hiring platform for industries of the future. Sloane was previously Chief Revenue Officer at FlowerHire, the Cannabis industry's leading executive and strategic search and recruiting firm. Sloane brings over 12 years of leadership and innovation in the Talent and Recruiting space at companies like Motion Recruitment Partners and Hired.com, where he oversaw sales and recruiting teams that delivered 10,000+ strategic hires for high growth companies across North America. Sloane is passionate about Equity and Inclusion, and for the last 5 years has served on the Board of several national charities, Mouse.org and Code/Interactive, that focus on educating and empowering the future generation of diverse leaders. Sloane lives in New York City with his wife and Corgi. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sloanebarbour/ https://flowerhire.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/flowerhire/?originalSubdomain=be https://twitter.com/FlowerHire https://engin.fit/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Peterson, WasteTrakr, CEO and Co-Founder Steve Peterson is the CEO and Co-Founder of WasteTrakr Technologies, a software application for ESG reporting and sustainability. In addition, Steve is a Partner at Tress Capital, a NY venture capital firm investing in cannabis technologies. Steve combines 20+ years of technology experience with five years of cannabis industry management experience as a VP/GM of retail operations in San Jose, Eugene and Portland OR. Steve has also assisted public companies with their growth strategies and is a Board Member of MedicateOH. www.WasteTrakr.com www.TressDeals.com www.Tress.io @CannaWasteTrakr https://www.linkedin.com/company/19035973/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Max Simon, CEO at Green Flower Max Simon’s vision to change the world’s understanding of cannabis led him to create Green Flower, a first-of- its-kind education company, in 2014. Green Flower has since become the recognized industry leader in cannabis education and training, producing the world’s largest library of online cannabis courses; bolstering a network of more than 700 leading cannabis experts; powering the cannabis curriculums of multiple Universities across the US; successfully training cannabis workforces around the world; and creating the esteemed Ganjier Certification, known as the Cannabis Sommelier Certification. Max’s mission to educate the world about cannabis echoes his earlier work in bringing mind-body wellness and meditation into the mainstream as the Director of Consumer Products for world-renowned self-help guru Deepak Chopra. Max rebranded that company, developed and launched 49 signature products, and helped millions of people improve the quality of their lives along the way. Green Flower is also a deeply personal mission for Max, who has successfully used cannabis for more than two decades as an integral part of his wellness regime—and to aid in the treatment of his ADHD. https://www.green-flower.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/school/greenflower Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Travis Schwartz, CEO, Co-Founder, GrowGlide Travis Schwartz is the CEO & co-founder of Grow Glide. Travis owns three businesses and recently sold his Amazon-adjacent venture. In 2021, Travis led Grow Glide to a 20x revenue year, smashing expectations. Additionally, the company increased its headcount 533%. He credits his scaling success to his firm business beliefs: - Attract talented, capable, like-minded individuals and get out of their way - Optimize those individuals and their teams by leveraging technology- Make rapid decisions and small improvements every week to achieve our goals Darin Siples, President, Co-Founder, GrowGlide A 15 year career as a cannabis cultivator gave Darin the credibility and confidence to launch a grower-first company laser focused on solving problems actual growers face in the field. Knowing that the multi-tier solutions in the market were lacking, Darin decided to put growers first and design his own systems and solutions. In 2021, Darin led the design of two new key cultivation products: AirGlide - providing best-in-class airflow solutions for cultivations and the Grow Decks - finally providing cultivators with a safe and secure solution for workflow in a multi-tier environment. www.growglide.com www.instagram.com/growglide www.linkedin.com/company/grow-glide/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rose Taylor, EA, Redbud Advisors LLC Rose Taylor graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BBA in Business Management. While business is her primary passion, she found out early on she had a knack for accounting. For the past 15 years, Rose has owned multiple businesses and partnerships in varying fields such as retail, B2B, e-commerce, and real estate. She has worked for small businesses and multi-million dollar corporations, both publicly and privately. Originally from California she was well aware of challenges the cannabis industry faces and quickly jumped in to serve the new Oklahoma market in 2018. She is an Enrolled Agent, licensed by the federal government and is authorized to appear in the place of the taxpayer at the Internal Revenue Service. redbudadvisors.com instagram.com/redbudadvisors facebook.com/redbudadvisors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caitlyn Krebs, Co-Founder & CEO at Nalu Bio Caitlyn is an entrepreneur with 20+ years of healthcare and life science experience. She has a passion for building companies at the frontier of science and technology - cancer epigenomics, eye tracking for Alzheimer’s, pre-diabetes diagnostics, predictive biosimulation, and now chemistry for cannabinoids. She has held positions in executive management, operations, and corporate development with a focus on commercializing new products and bringing them to market. Caitlyn graduated with honors from Brown University with a BS in Biology, she is a mother of two boys, a Crossfitter, and is committed to realizing the potential of pure, scalable chemistry-based cannabinoids. https://www.nalubio.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/37248677 https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlynkrebs/ https://twitter.com/caitlynkrebs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dede Perkins, Co-Founder and CEO of ProCanna Dede Perkins, Co-Founder and CEO of ProCanna, has a true entrepreneurial spirit. She joined the cannabis industry in 2013 as a member of the application team that won one of the first competitive vertically integrated applications in Massachusetts. After that, she helped win cannabis licenses in New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, Arkansas, North Dakota, and Nevada. A regulatory specialist, Dede is passionate about combining compliance with operational excellence; safe, standardized products; empowered employees; strong company culture and brands. https://procanna-usa.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/dedeperkins/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/procanna-usa/ https://www.instagram.com/procannausa/ https://twitter.com/procanna_usa https://www.facebook.com/ProCannaCompliance Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Annie Davis, Founder and CEO, Growing Impact Annie Davis is a business strategist and marketing leader with a lifelong passion for building lasting brands. She founded Growing Impact because she believes in the healing power of cannabis, and that business can be a force for good. She served as VP Marketing for Flow Kana, a leading brand of sun-grown flower, VP Sales & Marketing for Care By Design, a pioneer in CBD wellness, and I've led direct-to-consumer and strategic partnerships for Garden Society, a craft cannabis operator serving women in search of new, more holistic ways to rejuvenate from the chaos of their daily lives. Prior to cannabis, she held marketing & business development leadership roles across consumer packaged goods, renewable energy, and natural products. She received her BA in Political Science from Yale University and her MBA from Harvard Business School. annie@growingimpact.co https://www.growingimpact.co/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff is an entrepreneurial leader and storyteller with more than 25 years experience in technology, marketing, product management, business development, and finance. Prior to Everscore, he was the founder of two marketing technology startups in consumer goods including myUpside, the first experiential rewards coalition in the world with over 100 brands including Red Bull. He pioneered data-driven, personalized promotions for wellness, and better-for-you brands with an emphasis on creating, connecting, and measuring online consumer demand to physical stores. Before his startup journey, he was a senior executive at Microsoft as the Director of Global Product Management for Microsoft Dynamics. Jeff started his career in investment banking and private equity with JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America executing leveraged buyouts of consumer goods and retailers for sponsors including Yucaipa, MacAndrews & Forbes, KKR, Forstmann Little, Hicks Muse, and Citicorp Ventures. He has served on seven boards and is currently a mentor to startups at CU Boulder. Jeff is a graduate of Arizona State University and holds a MBA from Goizueta Business School at Emory University. https://everscoreconnect.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/everscore/ https://www.instagram.com/everscore_lifestyle/ https://twitter.com/shopeverscore Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bryan Passman, Founder, Hunter + Esquire Bryan Passman is the Founder + Head Hunter at the retained executive cannabis search firm Hunter + Esquire. Bryan is globally renowned in executive search and advisory in the Cannabis, MedTech/ Pharma/Biotech, and Food & Beverage (FMCG) Consumer Packaged Goods industries. Bryan's hiring partners have included small and large NA and LATAM based cannabis companies, hundreds of startup and blue chip companies in the Healthcare life sciences and (food and adult beverage) Consumer Packaged Goods industries as well Tech and Packaging companies serving the CPG and Hospitality industries. Before co-founding Hunter + Esquire, Bryan spent 18 years as an SVP Recruitment and Client Leader at retained search agencies where he and his teams were responsible for successfully managing talent searches globally. Bryan has spent his entire career succeeding in retained executive search, with a foundation of classical training by the MRINetwork and Dale Carnegie. Hunter + Esquire's hiring partners benefit greatly from Bryan's ability to communicate, train and execute on the intricacies of the "high-touch" executive search and talent acquisition process as well as from his eye for talent, and "fit". Bryan's unwavering commitment to hard work, transparency, candid communication, attention to detail, follow-up, passion for what he does & creative problem-solving are some of the cornerstones to his success. https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanpassman/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/hunter-esquire https://www.instagram.com/hunter_esquire/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices